Clive Thompson Quotes

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Clive Thompson

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YouStatisticsStopKnowGlobe

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

Andy Dunn

AmazingLittle ThingsLittleThings

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

Angela Kinsey

FunnyGoodResponsibilityJobBetter

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Steve Allen

HumorBadOverSocialUsGet

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

Solange Knowles

GoodBusinessBadFeelingsHardAct

I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

Mona Eltahawy

FamilyHeartJusticeBelieveBody

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.

Misty Copeland

PerseveranceWomenTheatreAmerican

I love Nicole Holofcener and Lynn Shelton, both for the same reasons: their films are funny without being forced, intimate and real while also being hugely entertaining.

Liz Tuccillo

FunnyLoveRealSameWithoutBeing

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Logan Marshall-Green

PeopleThinkFindPlayTrueMore

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Delmore Schwartz

FatherAgeManNowSeeWithout

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

Deborah Harkness

LoveLiveWorldThinkKnowWill

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

Anushka Sharma

I AmLookingSomeoneDoingAttention

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

Peter Lindbergh

SimpleBeginningYourselfBeardYou

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